Mumbai:
Diesel smuggling kingpin Mohammed Ali Shaikh was found bathed in muck eight hours after he slipped into the opening on jail premises
He was found missing from the Arthur Road prison. About eight hours later, he was spotted in a gutter, fully covered in muck.
Alleged diesel smuggling mafia kingpin Mohammed Ali Shaikh who was arrested in connection with the murder of rival, Sayyed Madar Chand, was found playing truant behind bars.
It was only after a frantic search by jail officials that Shaikh emerged from a gutter located in one corner of the prison premises.
According to sources in the jail, the incident came to light during bandi time around 6.30 pm on Tuesday. That's when jail officials take a headcount of prisoners before sending them back to their barracks.
When jail officials realised that Shaikh was missing, a search was launched for him in the barracks. It was only in the wee hours of Wednesday that they spotted him near the gutter.
Sources said that Shaikh, who has been in the prison for the past one month, is finding it difficult to put up with the mean environs of the prison.
Only a couple of weeks ago, when he had been escorted to Podar Hospital in Worli for treatment of arthritis, he hid himself in the toilet.
When he had been admitted to JJ Hospital, Byculla for treatment, he had troubled the hospital staff.
"Shaikh is always throwing tantrums. He is finding it very difficult to put up with the jail routine and discipline," a jail source said on condition of anonymity.
"He has been kept under strict observation as he is a high profile prisoner. We cannot take chances with his security. It is possible that he wants to get himself admitted to a hospital so that he can escape the punishing jail routine," sources in the prison said.
After investigations revealed that Shaikh, along with underworld gangster Chhota Shakeel, had hatched the murder conspiracy to kill Chand, charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act were invoked against Shaikh.
On Wednesday, a similar incident occurred wherein a thief, a first-time offender, disappeared from the barrack, sending panic waves among jail officials. He was finally spotted hiding in one corner of a barrack.
He was found missing from the Arthur Road prison. About eight hours later, he was spotted in a gutter, fully covered in muck.
Alleged diesel smuggling mafia kingpin Mohammed Ali Shaikh who was arrested in connection with the murder of rival, Sayyed Madar Chand, was found playing truant behind bars.
It was only after a frantic search by jail officials that Shaikh emerged from a gutter located in one corner of the prison premises.
According to sources in the jail, the incident came to light during bandi time around 6.30 pm on Tuesday. That's when jail officials take a headcount of prisoners before sending them back to their barracks.
When jail officials realised that Shaikh was missing, a search was launched for him in the barracks. It was only in the wee hours of Wednesday that they spotted him near the gutter.
Sources said that Shaikh, who has been in the prison for the past one month, is finding it difficult to put up with the mean environs of the prison.
Only a couple of weeks ago, when he had been escorted to Podar Hospital in Worli for treatment of arthritis, he hid himself in the toilet.
When he had been admitted to JJ Hospital, Byculla for treatment, he had troubled the hospital staff.
"Shaikh is always throwing tantrums. He is finding it very difficult to put up with the jail routine and discipline," a jail source said on condition of anonymity.
"He has been kept under strict observation as he is a high profile prisoner. We cannot take chances with his security. It is possible that he wants to get himself admitted to a hospital so that he can escape the punishing jail routine," sources in the prison said.
After investigations revealed that Shaikh, along with underworld gangster Chhota Shakeel, had hatched the murder conspiracy to kill Chand, charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act were invoked against Shaikh.
On Wednesday, a similar incident occurred wherein a thief, a first-time offender, disappeared from the barrack, sending panic waves among jail officials. He was finally spotted hiding in one corner of a barrack.
